A lady’s bottle should look like a modern woman：chinaware

To say that the origin of this lady bottle, you have to start from the Northern Song Dynasty that literary emperor Song Huizong.

1. Legend has it that he dreamed of the sky after the rain with a greenish-blue halo, woke up on the decree: “after the rain the clouds break, this color to do the future.
   “Craftsmen racked their brains, to the glaze mixed with onyx powder, quenched in the kiln fire, ”like jade is not jade is like jade,” the sky blue color.
   This burn does not matter, directly burned out of the Song Dynasty, the first of the five famous kilns – Ru kiln.

   

   The shape of the lady bottle is perfect!
   The upper part of the shoulder like a young girl, rounded with a bone; the lower part of the skirt like put in place, the line than the modern cheongsam is also exquisite.
   The most wonderful is the glaze will be “magic”: natural light is a light azure, like the Jiangnan rain; light a hit, and through the shrimp-like pinkish green, close to see there are stars and red spots, with the evening sun.

2. Connoisseurs say that this is called “agate into the glaze light”, the world on the 65 pieces of Song Dynasty Ru porcelain have this treatment.I have a friend working in the Forbidden City, he said that the lady bottle of the open piece is the real work.
   Look close, glaze
   like frozen ice cracks, fine and broken, with a magnifying glass can also be found “crab claw pattern” – with the crab crawling on the beach like.
   These open pieces are not artificially carved, all the kiln fire quenching natural cracks, each one is a unique “identity card”.

   Now on the market antique lady bottle quite a lot, I teach you three strokes to identify the real and fake.
   The first look at the tire quality, the real Ru porcelain tire as delicate as ash, light can be a light pink; second look at the pegs, sesame seed size of the pegs marks is full of glaze firing signs, fake either too big or too neat; third listen to the sound, gently knocked to send out a “chime” as the sound, which is the thickness of the glaze layer and the density of the tire body is a perfect combination of the results.

   

3. Recently, a female potter in Henan Province replica of the lady bottle won the gold medal, she added modern elements in the traditional shape, such as the neck of the bottle lengthened a little, more fluid lines.
4. She said: “Lady bottle should be like a modern woman, both classical flavor, but also has the style of the times.” Now a lot of young people to the lady bottle as a flower, insert a lotus to the study a put, than to buy luxury goods and style.Do you know? Lady bottle is not just ornaments, there are practical functions.
   Ancient literati used it to arrange flowers, incense, modern people take it as a vase, and even as a tea vessel.
5. I have tried to use the lady bottle Pu’er tea, tea soup out of the color has become warm, as if stained with some ancient meaning.Lastly, I would like to remind you not to be greedy for cheap bottles.
   Last year, someone spent eight thousand dollars to buy a “Song Dynasty Lady bottle”, the results identified as modern imitations.

The real Ru kiln lady bottle are lying in the museum, we ordinary people buy a serious kiln out of the antique works, placed in the home eye and heart, enough!